... the period. Whitman's poetry, as unconventional as it may be, represented his democratic ideals of how he sees America. Even though Whitman's poetry is not written in a conventional way as other poets such as Emerson or Longfellow, it does have a structure of its very own. Do Whitman's poems contain many different Themes, in his poetry? Within each of Whitman's poems, "Song ... " (9-10). Walt Whitman was saying that whether male or female the body is beautiful, and we should not be ashamed to be who we are, as far as gender is concerned. Whitman describes a woman approaching by saying "I...

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